The Sculptor of Angular Anxiety Bernard Meadows (1915–2005) stands as a pivotal figure in the landscape of British modernist sculpture, an artist whose work serves as a profound visceral response to the fractured psyche of the post-war era. Born in Norwich, his creative journey was marked by an early and transformative encounter with the titan of modernism, Henry Moore. This relationship, which began when Meadows became Moore’s first assistant in 1936, was far more than a professional apprenticeship; it was a shared exploration of form, space, and the primal essence of life. While his early…